Metadata is information about normal application data that is contained in a group, element, or attribute. For example, metadata can provide additional qualifying information such as data type information. It could also provide information about relationships between the elements in a group or between the attributes in an element.

Software that interfaces with Windchill can generate metadata. For example, Windchill attribute type information is stored as metadata. This metadata is automatically passed along with the Info*Engine groups that are created. In addition, you can set metadata using the Set-Metadata webject.

By default, metadata is not included when XML output is generated through the Display-XML webject. To include metadata in your XML output, you can use the FULL mode on this webject.

In the XML output that includes metadata, metadata is nested between <wc:Meta> start tags and </wc:Meta> end tags.